Taysir Batniji is truly a jack of all trades in the art world. Born in Gaza in 1966, Batniji has studied and created art all over the world. He attended Al-Najah University in Palestine, the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges Université Paris 8 and the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Marseille in France, and […]
I am to notebooks what Carrie Bradshaw is to shoes. If you’ve never seen Sex and the City, I’ll break it down for you: Carrie will be walking down the street and spot a pair of heels in a window. Despite having a closet at home overflowing with shoes for every occasion, Carrie will decide […]
When you hear the name John Lennon, you probably hear “Imagine” playing in your head. The images his name calls to mind have more to do with making music and crossing streets in an iconic fashion than any other art form. And yet, John Lennon was an artist of a different kind as well, and […]
Alexandra Charmaine Ortiz, M.F.A., is a very busy artist! She is Artist in Residence at the Art Students League of New York’s Vytlacil Campus, has an exhibit called Collapsed Fields currently on display, and is launching her own pencil company on top of it all. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to interview […]
Math and Art are not two subjects that I often think of as being connected – at least, until I discovered the work of Venezuelan artist Rafael Araujo, who uses principles of Geometry to represent the mathematical complexity of nature on canvas. Ever since he first began drawing perspective pieces as a child, Araujo “loved […]
When I was little, my dad and my brother always carried knives in their pockets wherever they went. They used them for all sorts of things – to open the packaging on tricky bags of gummy bears, to pop the caps off bottles, and even to sharpen pencils. If you’ve never sharpened a pencil with […]
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and I don’t know about you, but I’m excited. A socially-sanctioned opportunity to consume all of the chocolate I want, guilt-free? Yes please! For those of you with a more romantic take on the holiday, however, I’ll share with you excerpts from some of the most beautiful love notes throughout history, […]
Remember when you were little and your mom would leave notes in your lunch box? Me too. So does Emma Callaghan. Every day, her father, Garth, writes a little slice of wisdom on a napkin in Emma’s lunch. Known as The Napkin Notes Dad, Garth has cancer and may not live to see Emma graduate […]
Christmas movies are a holiday tradition among my friends and I, and I bet they’re a tradition for some of you folks too. There are so many great ones, it’s hard to pick favorites, but I’d like to share with you my top five. If you haven’t seen them, I suggest you bundle up in […]
Do you remember the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Marie writes a letter to include in her Christmas cards about what everyone’s been up to that year, and it starts an all-out feud? If not, see here. The main premise of the episode is that not all of her comments are flattering, and the dysfunctional […]
